A Book Of Middle English 3e C written by Burrow

Overview:

This authoritative textbook introduces readers to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400.

Synopsis:

This revised edition takes account of suggestions and comments from reviewers and from those who have used the first edition all over the world. The main features of the second edition are the inclusion of etymologies in the glossary and the edition of three complete texts by Chaucer: The Parliament of Fowls, The Reeve's Tale and The Prioress's Tale. Part One has been revised to cover English at the time of Chaucer, and suggestions for further reading have been updated throughout the book.

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Title:A Book Of Middle English 3e CAuthor:BurrowPublisher:Wiley, John & Sons, IncorporatedDate Published: November 2004Edition:REVPages: 436ISBN-13:9781405117081ISBN-10: 1405117087

Table of Contents:

1

Introducing Middle English

3

2

Pronouncing Middle English

9

3

Vocabulary

14

4

Inflexions

19

5

Syntax

39

6

Metre

56

7

From manuscript to printed text

62

8

Select bibliography

65

Note on treatment of texts

74

The Peterborough chronicle 1137

75

The owl and the nightingale

81

Brut

96

Ancrene Wisse

106

Sir Orfeo

112

The cloud of unknowing

132

Piers Plowman

141

Patience

162

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

182

Pearl

202

St. Erkenwald

221

Dialogue between a lord and a clerk

235

Confessio Amantis

243

Lyrics

255

The York play of the Crucifixion

272

The parliament of fowls

283

Troilus and Criseyde

309

The Reeve's tale

328

The Prioress's tale

346

From the Publisher

"Classroom experience with this authoritative and accessible introduction to Middle English confirms that this is now our best available vademecum to the subject. The appearance of a third edition of Burrow and Turville-Petre's Book of Middle English is good news to teachers and students of Middle English." Fred Robinson, Yale University

"Currently the most lucid and illuminating introduction to the language of Middle English, with an excellent selection of literary texts chosen and annotated to suggest the interest, sophistication, and variety of Middle English writing from the Peterborough Chronicle through the works of Chaucer and his contemporaries." Andrew Galloway, Cornell University